IUCN status: Critically Endangered
EPBC Predator Threat Rating: Not assessed
IUCN claim: āThe population at Mt. Buller suffers from fragmentation and subpopulations here and around ski resorts in the Kosciuszko area have declined severely since 2000 due to: habitat destruction, predation by feral cats, and possibly low snow cover.ā
Possums were found in catās diet (Doherty et al.Ā 2015).
No studies
There are no studies linking cats to pygmy possum population trends.
Evidence linking Burramys parvus to cats. Systematic review of evidence for an association between Burramys parvus and cats. Positive studies are in support of the hypothesis that cats contribute to the decline of Burramys parvus, negative studies are not in support. Predation studies include studies documenting hunting or scavenging; baiting studies are associations between poison baiting and threatened mammal abundance where information on predator abundance is not provided; population studies are associations between threatened mammal and predator abundance. See methods section in [current submission] for details on evidence categories.
Current submission (2023) Scant evidence that introduced predators cause extinctions.
Doherty, T.S., Davis, R.A., van Etten, E.J., Algar, D., Collier, N., Dickman, C.R., Edwards, G., Masters, P., Palmer, R. and Robinson, S., 2015. A continentalāscale analysis of feral cat diet in Australia. Journal of Biogeography, 42(5), pp.964-975.
IUCN Red List. https://www.iucnredlist.org/ Accessed June 2023